Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 29v
Notes:
The donor, John André (1751-1780), was a major in the British Army and head of its Secret Service in America during the American Revolutionary War. He was hanged as a spy by the Continental Army for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York, to the British.
